Something else I was wondering... if you were driving along at night, at the speed of light with your headlights on... would you be able to see where you were going?
Something else I was wondering... if you were driving along at night, at the speed of light with your headlights on... would you be able to see where you were going?
You cant reach the speed of light. You can approach it, but not achieve it....
Something else I was wondering... if you were driving along at night, at the speed of light with your headlights on... would you be able to see where you were going?
Something else I was wondering... if you were driving along at night, at the speed of light with your headlights on... would you be able to see where you were going?
Not until you reach Alpha Centauri - and then you would have to stop and ask the Robinsons for directions...
Something else I was wondering... if you were driving along at night, at the speed of light with your headlights on... would you be able to see where you were going?
I'd hate to have to slam on the brakes whilst traveling a few hundred thousand miles per hour!
Something else I was wondering... if you were driving along at night, at the speed of light with your headlights on... would you be able to see where you were going?
I think yes, you will see where you were going. Its like a fighter jet shooting its guns, the speed of the guns are projected faster than at the speed its going than sitting still.
terminal velocity of a car is just over 700 mph. not quite fast enough for acheiving the jump to light speed there Han Solo
P.S. I know you were joking but i couldnt resist
This may be the aerospace engineer in me, but where do you get 700 mph for the terminal velocity of a car? Unless your using a different meaning for the term, I assume that it means the free fall speed of an object once the downward force equals that of the upward force causing no acceleration.
If I did my math right, that would be about 90 mph for an average car, if its falling front side down.
Time to go back to the ADHD website
It's the maximum speed an object under acceleration can reach minus fictional, gravitational, wind, and mechanical friction. Mostly determined by the shape of the object.
I think yes, you will see where you were going. Its like a fighter jet shooting its guns, the speed of the guns are projected faster than at the speed its going than sitting still.
If a plane was traveling the speed of light on a treadmill moving in the opposite direction at the speed of light....,
So - news flash - E=mc^2 is not true - it's a popular fiction and a simplification.
The real equation is E=mc^2/square_root(1 - v^2/c^2) where v is your speed - this accounts for that pesky momentum thingy while also calculating equivalent energy (E) of anything with mass (m). If you move at the speed of light, then v^2/c^2 becomes c^2/c^2 - which is one - and square_root(1-1) is square_root(0) which does not compute.
So nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light.
What you are saying is absolutely correct, but E=mc^2 is actually true if "m" is the relativistic mass and not the commonly known mass, which is a vulgarization as you said.
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